| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Alcibiades I by Plato: the Messenian territory, or in the number of their slaves, and especially
of the Helots, or of their horses, or of the animals which feed on the
Messenian pastures. But I have said enough of this: and as to gold and
silver, there is more of them in Lacedaemon than in all the rest of Hellas,
for during many generations gold has been always flowing in to them from
the whole Hellenic world, and often from the barbarian also, and never
going out, as in the fable of Aesop the fox said to the lion, 'The prints
of the feet of those going in are distinct enough;' but who ever saw the
trace of money going out of Lacedaemon? And therefore you may safely infer
that the inhabitants are the richest of the Hellenes in gold and silver,
and that their kings are the richest of them, for they have a larger share
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Legend of Montrose by Walter Scott: misbecome any one of them to be absent, and greatly prejudice me
in the opinion of my lady. There are pipes and tobacco, sir, if
you please to drink a whiff of smoke, and if you want anything
else, it shall be forthcoming two hours hence, when prayers are
over." So saying, he left the apartment.
No sooner was he gone, than the heavy toll of the castle-bell
summoned its inhabitants together; and was answered by the shrill
clamour of the females, mixed with the deeper tones of the men,
as, talking Earse at the top of their throats, they hurried from
different quarters by a long but narrow gallery, which served as
a communication to many rooms, and, among others, to that in
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from One Basket by Edna Ferber: Aunt Sophy. "You must have barrels of it."
Adele stuffed another wisp of tulle into the pocket of her
pinafore.
"I keep it," she said.
When she was ten Adele had said to her mother, "Why do you
always say `Poor Sophy'?"
"Because--Aunt Sophy's had so little in life. She never has
married, and has always worked."
Adele considered that. "If you don't get married do they say
you're poor?"
"Well--yes----"
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